Good morning DCC Church Family -
Monday morning is usually a time for reviewing Sunday's worship service, and reflecting on the sermon, prayerfully considering what lessons can be learned for future messages.
This morning, as I looked once again at my notes, and rejoiced in boasting in the Lord and Jesus's cross, I was reminded of the year 2000 when that concept first landed on me as a beautiful truth. It was through a message preached by John Piper at the 2000 Passion OneDay Conference in Memphis, TN., and specifically through this explanation of Galatians 6:14:
Another way to say this is that the design of the cross is the glory of Christ. The aim of God in the cross is that Christ would be honored. When Paul says in Galatians 6:14, “May it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,” he is saying that God’s will is that the cross be always magnified — that Christ crucified always be our boast and exultation and our joy and our praise — that Christ get glory and thanks and honor for every good thing in our lives — and every bad thing that God causes to turn for good.
While I desire to "follow the One who died for me" and no mere man, God used Piper's message on that day to frame how I have thought since then, about what it means to boast in the cross.
I commend it to you here so that God may use it in your life, as He did in mine, to further encourage you to boast in all good things as boasting in the cross of Jesus.
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Pastor Andy